BHAGAVAD-GITA 5:15

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Hare Krishna

 

I am bewildered.

 

In this PURPORT it is explained that The Lord is omnipotent, but the

living entity is not. The Lord is vibhu, or omniscient, but the living

entity is anu, or atomic. Because he is a living soul, he has the

capacity to desire by his free will. Such desire is fulfilled only by

the omnipotent Lord. And so, when the living entity is bewildered in his

desires, the Lord allows him to fulfill those desires, but the Lord is

never responsible for the actions and reactions of the particular

situation which may be desired.

 

1) Is it only when the entity is bewildered in his desires that Lord

Krsna Allows such actions and reactions?

 

The Lord is the constant companion of the living entity as Paramatma,

or the Supersoul, and therefore He can understand the desires of the

individual soul, as one can smell the flavor of a flower by being near

it. Desire is a subtle form of conditioning for the living entity. The

Lord fulfills his desire as he deserves: Man proposes and God

disposes.

 

2) If I pray to Sri Krsna that I have such desire but it is now as

service to you Lord is that still subtle form of conditioning?

 

 

"The living entity is completely dependent in his distress and

happiness. By

the will of the Supreme he can go to heaven or hell, as a cloud is

driven by the air."

 

3) Back to Q1 so does this mean that the living entity is ONLY dependant

on the Lord when he is in distress and or happiness but otherwise he has

desires.

 

Therefore the embodied soul, by his immemorial desire to avoid Krsna

consciousness, causes his own bewilderment. Consequently, although he

is constitutionally eternal, blissful and cognizant, due to the

littleness of his existence he forgets his constitutional position of

service to the Lord and is thus entrapped by nescience. And, under the

spell of ignorance, the living entity claims that the Lord is

responsible for his conditional existence. The Vedanta-sutras (2.1.34)

also confirm this. Vaisamya-nairghrnye na sapeksatvat tatha hi

darsayati: "The Lord neither hates nor likes anyone, though He appears

to."

 

4) If we have an immemorial desire to be avoid Krsna then does that

include Vaikunthu also or is it only when we are materially conditioned.

 

All Glories to the Vaisnavas

 

Regards

 

Rakesh Manohar

 

 

 

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